She Said Quotes

“There isn't ever going to be an end," she said. "The point is that people have to continue always speaking up. And not being afraid.”
― Jodi Kantor, She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

“Harassers were often accepted, or even cheered, as mischievous bad boys.”
― Jodi Kantor, She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

“I can’t change what happened to you in the past, but together we may be able to use your experience to help protect other people.”
― Jodi Kantor, She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

“Jodi cut to the point: The United States had a system for muting sexual harassment claims, which often enabled the harassers instead of stopping them. Women routinely signed away the right to talk about their own experiences. Harassers often continued onward, finding fresh ground on which to commit the same offenses. The settlements and confidentiality agreements were almost never examined in law school classrooms or open court. This was why the public had never really understood that this was happening. Even those in the room with long histories of covering gender issues had never fully registered what was going on.”
― Jodi Kantor, She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

“If white men could have a playground, this would be it.”
― Jodi Kantor, She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

“I have to know the hill on which I’m willing to die,” she told the group. “The equality of the sexes is that hill for me.”
― Jodi Kantor, She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

“in the world at large, the emergence of new information was just the beginning—of conversation, action, change.”
― Jodi Kantor, She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

“They only tackle you when you've got the ball.”
― Jodi Kantor, She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

“It was a rousing defense, not just of journalism but of the rights of women to make allegations against powerful men. When the Times published the letter on its website, it went immediately viral.”
― Jodi Kantor, She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

“Had the reckoning gone too far, with innocent men tarnished with less-than-convincing proof, or not far enough, with a frustrating lack of systemic change?”
― Jodi Kantor, She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

“There isn’t ever going to be an end,” she said. “The point is that people have to continue always speaking up and not being afraid.”
― Jodi Kantor, She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

“Believe Women" grew into one of the catchphrases of the day. Jodi and Megan were sympathetic to the spirit behind that imperative: They had spent their careers getting women's stories into print. But the obligation of journalists was to scrutinize, verify, check, and question information. ( A former editor of Megan's displayed a sign on his desk that read: IF YOUR MOTHER TELLS YOU SHE LOVES YOU, CHECK IT OUT) The Weinstein story had impact in part because it had achieved something that, in 2018, seemed rare and precious broad consensus on the facts. Accountability was easy to insist on, but in some cases, much trickier to assign.”
― Jodi Kantor, She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

“Even at that late hour, they sounded more concerned with the welfare of the company than the welfare of the women, which had been the problem all along.”
― Jodi Kantor, She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

“Some of the women had gone public. Others had told Paltrow that because they succumbed to Weinstein sexually, they felt they could never speak out. Weinstein denied he had ever made those claims about Paltrow, but it seemed this was why he had been so worried about the prospect of her speaking up: Once others knew her story, his scheme would fall apart.”
― Jodi Kantor, She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

“Positive reputation management. I Googled your name, and a few obnoxious articles popu up. I work with the leading reputation management company that can backlink to the positive articles to make a "firewall" which prevents negative pieces from ranking well on Google. Your first page of Google is key as 95% never go beyond the first Google page. Let's improve this. Easy to do.”
― Jodi Kantor, She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

“From what Steel was learning, the language of the deals made them look less like aboveboard legal transactions and more like cover-ups. The agreements included one restrictive clause after another. The women were obliged to turn over all their evidence—audio recordings, diaries, emails, backup files, any other shred of proof—to O’Reilly and his lawyers. They and in one case their attorneys were prohibited from helping any other women who might have similar claims against the host. If they received subpoenas compelling them to talk, they were required to notify O’Reilly and his team, who could fight their being called to testify. The lawyer for one of the women agreed to switch sides, to “provide legal advice to O’Reilly regarding sexual harassment matters,” according to the language of the agreement. Another of the alleged victims promised never to make disparaging statements about O’Reilly or Fox News, “written or oral, direct or indirect,” and not to respond—ever—to any journalists who might contact her about the matter. As part of the deal, she confirmed that she had not filed a complaint with any of the government agencies responsible for fighting sexual harassment, including the EEOC. In return, one alleged victim received about $9 million, and another got $3.25 million. If either woman violated any of these clauses, she could lose the money. Whatever O’Reilly had or hadn’t done to the women was thus dropped down a deep well, never to be recovered. Cash for silence; that was the deal.”
― Jodi Kantor, She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

“Under the contract that Boies helped revise, Black Cube’s mission became much more explicit: to halt Jodi and Megan’s investigation”
― Jodi Kantor, She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

“We're still smiling. None of us died from stepping forward. We walked through the fire, but we all came out the other side"
"I think we're probably all proud of the scars that we received," she said.
In summing up how the reckoning might be remembered over time "There isn't ever going to be an end, the point that people have to continue always speaking up and not being afraid"
A few weeks later, Chiu called: She was ready to go on the record, and for us to share her name publicly. She understood that more than eighty women had already come forward about Weinstein. She wasn't sure that the public would still care about her account. But she wanted to speak anyway. During the initial Weinstein investigation, she hadn't been ready, She feared the legal cases against him might not be successful. So she wanted to help write history and continue pushing for change.
"I'm not just going to let it slide away," She said”
― Jodi Kantor, She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

“I'm the only person at the table who has not yet gone public with my story, so I've had very little practice in telling it," Chiu said. Aside from her husband, her family still knew nothing, she said.

"There are very few, I feel, Asian voices that come forward with this kind of story" she continued. "It's not because this kind of thing does not happen to Asian people, but I think certainly within the U.S. we have a whole culture around a model minority that doesn't make a fuss, that doesn't speak up, that puts their head down and works really hard and doesn't cause waves" "The whole idea of coming out and speaking about that would undoubtedly shock my friends, and shift the whole of my life, is really terrifying”
― Jodi Kantor, She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

“After Madden spoke, she turned to Ford, mentioning that she had been able to speak out about Weinstein in part because she was confident her encounters with him were part of a broader predatory pattern.
"To stand up on your own was quite something," Madden said.
"Yeah, I didn't know if there were other people" Ford replied.”
― Jodi Kantor, She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

“In a way, those who felt #MeToo had not gone far enough and those who protested that it was going too far were saying some of the same things: There was a lack of process or clear enough rules.
The public did not fully agree on the precise meaning of words like harassment or assault, let alone how businesses or schools should investigate or punish them. Everyone from corporate boards to friends in bars seemed to be struggling to devise their own new guidelines, which made for fascinating conversation but also a kind of overall chaos.
It was not clear how the country would ever agree on effective new standards or resolve the ocean of outstanding complaints.
Instead, the feeling of unfairness on both sides just continued to mount.”
― Jodi Kantor, She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

“Jodi cut to the point: The United States had a system for muting sexual harassment claims, which often enabled the harassers instead of stopping them. Women routinely signed away the right to talk about their own experiences. Harassers often continued onward, finding fresh ground on which to commit the same offenses.”
― Jodi Kantor, She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement